Cheryl Whitt Rios, native of Lincoln County, Kentucky,
is the daughter of the late Howard Gene Whitt and Sarah
Mullins Whitt Baker. She is married to Vincent Rios,
retired Assistant Regional Administrator, Regions IX and
X, U.S. Department of Labor and medically retired United
States Marine (Vietnam veteran – two tours). She has
one child -Christopher, four step-children – Mitchell
Rios, Michelle Rios, Frances Rios, and Pete Rios. She
and Vince share 7 grandchildren.

Cheryl completed an AA degree with highest honors at
Skyline College, San Francisco, CA and earned her BA in
psychology, graduating Summa cum laude, from San
Francisco State University. She has lived in Kentucky,
Ohio, Oklahoma, California, Alaska and now resides in
Texas, a state to which she has always come home between
her jaunts to experience life in other states. She
worked as a fingerprint specialist for the Fort Worth
Police Department (TX), as a Project Coordinator,
Justice Policy Institute, and owned a medical
transcription service.

Society Memberships
* National Gavel Society
* Baronial Order of Magna Charta
* Colonial Dames of America
* Continental Society Daughters of Indian Wars (former National
Chair,
Membership)
* Descendants of Sheriffs and Constables of Colonial and
Antebellum
America (President General; Founding Officer)
* First Families of Kentucky
* Flagon & Trencher: Descendants of Colonial Tavern
Keepers
* Guild of Colonial Artisans and Tradesmen 1607-1783
* Hereditary Order of the Descendants of Loyalists and
Patriots of the
American Revolution (Historian General; former Recording
Secretary General; former Assistant Registrar General)
* Hereditary Order of the Families of Presidents and First
Ladies
(National Vice President; former Recording Secretary General)
* Hereditary Society of Teachers (charter member)
* National Guild of Saint Margaret of Scotland
* National Order of Blue and Gray (Vice President
General; Registrar
General;
former Recording Secretary
General)
* National Society Children of the American Revolution
(Senior
Reorganizing President, Valentine Holt CAR Society)
* National Society of the Colonial Daughters of the
Seventeenth Century
(Councillor 2015-2018; National Chair, Credentials; Organizing
President, Lone Star Chapter)
* National Society Colonial Dames XVII Century (chapter
Veterans
Service Chair)
* National Society Daughters of Colonial Wars (TX State
President,
member National Officers Club)
* National Society Daughters of the American Colonists
(former CA
State Corresponding Secretary)
* National Society Daughters of the American Revolution
(former National
Vice Chair, Southwest Division – Americanism Committee; DAR
Speakers Staff; VAVS Deputy Representative; honored as National
Outstanding DAR School State Chair and National Outstanding
Americanism State Chairman; former CA State Recording
Secretary, CA District III Director, CA District III Secretary, CA
President Past and Present Chapter Regents Club, CA Corresponding
Secretary State Officers Club, CA Vice President and Registrar
Cameo
Club; Honorary Chapter Regent)
* National Society Daughters of Founders and Patriots of
America
(National Chair, Insignia; Northeast Texas Chapter President)
* National Society Daughters of the British Empire in
the United
States of America
* National Society Descendants of Early Quakers
* National Society of the Dames of the Court of Honor
(President
General 2015-2017; former CA State President; former CA State
Registrar;
former National Chair – Credentials, Fellowship Breakfast,
Insignia,
Historical Markers)
* National Society of Saints and Sinners
* National Society Sons & Daughters of Antebellum
Planters 1607-1861
(member Advisory Council)
* National Society Sons & Daughters of the Pilgrims
(Organizing Secretary General; former Registrar General; appointed
Archivist;
former California and Texas Branch Governor)
* National Society Southern Dames of America
* National Society US Daughters of 1812
* Order of Alba (Charter Member)
* Order of Americans Cousins of the Present and Future
Sovereigns of
Great Britain (Director; Charter Member)
* Order of Americans of Armorial Ancestry
* Order of the Crown of Charlemagne in the United States
of America
* Order of Descendants of Colonial Cavaliers 1640-1660
* Order of Descendants of the Justiciars
* Order of the First Families of Maryland
* Order of the Founders of North America (Deputy
Viscountess General
Western United States; former Deputy Viscountess General – French
Colonists, charter member)
* Order of the Norman Conquest (Charter Member)
* Royal Society of Saint George
* Society of the Descendants of Lady Godiva (Councillor)
* Sons & Daughters of the Colonial and Antebellum Bench
& Bar
1561-1861 (President General)
* Sons & Daughters of Virginia Founding Fathers (charter
member)
* United Daughters of the Confederacy
* Member, P.E.O. Sisterhood
* Military Order of the Purple Heart Auxiliary (Life
Member; Former
Trustee)
* Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary (Life Member)
* American Legion Auxiliary (Life Member)
* Disabled American Veterans Auxiliary (Life Member)
* Ladies Oriental Shrine of North America (Past High
Priestess,
Phillaron Court)

Honors
*
Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels
* Psi Chi member, National Honor Society for Psychology
* Golden Key National Honor Society
* National Society Sons of the American Revolution Lydia
Daragh
Medal
* National Society Sons of the American Revolution
Daughters of
Liberty Medal
* National Society Sons of the American Revolution
Martha
Washington Medal
* National Society Sons of the American Revolution Medal
of Appreciation
* Yellow Rose of Texas, commissioned 2015, State of
Texas
* Commissioned an Arkansas Traveler by the Governor of
Arkansas